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  • noun Plural form of buckwheat.

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Examples

  • A few species of buckwheats (Eriogonum) germinate in fall or winter and flower the following summer.

    Adaptations of desert plants 2009

  • There are more than a score of skeleton weeds (Eriogonum spp.) and half as many spiny buckwheats (Chorizanthe spp.), most of which go unnoticed except by botanists (see species accounts).

    Adaptations of desert plants 2009

  • Eleven plant species listed as threatened in the United States 'statutes are found in the park; Palmer amsonia Amsonia palmeri, goldenweed Haplopappus salicinus, Draba asprella var. kaibensis, plains cactus Pediocactus bradyi, scouler catchfly Silene rectiramea, phacelia Phacelia filiformis, wild buckwheats Eriogonum darrovii, E. thompsonae var. atwoodi and E. zionis var. coccineum, primrose Primula hunnewellii and clute penstemon Penstemon clutei.

    Grand Canyon National Park, United States 2009

  • Some of the flowers were the same as I saw in the desert two days before: larkspur, scarlet globemallow, and buckwheats.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2008

  • Jeff VanderMeer rates the films of 2004 on his unique buckwheats scale:THE GRUDGE.

    Boat Drinks 2005

  • “Give that son of a bitch his buckwheats,” he said.

    The Lost Get-Back Boogie James Lee Burke 1986

  • We were at breakfast, discussing buckwheats diligently, when father glanced down the roadway and began to laugh.

    The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories Various

  • I bear my troubles well but I do wish Hannah would put more starch in my aprons and have buckwheats every day.

    Little Women 1921

  • Meg was already covering the buckwheats, and piling the bread into one big plate.

    Little Women 1921

  • Then a few nice buckwheats hot from the griddle, 15

    0 491. The Vagabonds by John Townsend Trowbridge. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900 1900

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